University Of Missouri Press: 246 books

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The Forgotten Generation

American Children and World War II

by Lisa L. Ossian
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011

Two days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt addressed the nation by radio, saying, “We are all in it—all the way. Every single man, woman, and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking of our American history.” So began a continuing theme of the World War II years:...
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by Lisa L. Ossian
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009

As Americans geared up for World War II, each state responded according to its economy and circumstances—as well as the disposition of its citizens. This book considers the war years in Iowa by looking at activity on different home fronts and analyzing the resilience of Iowans in answering the call...
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Dick Cole’s War

Doolittle Raider, Hump Pilot, Air Commando

by Dennis R. Okerstrom
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2015

With the 100th anniversary of his birth on September 7, 2015 Dick Cole has long stood in the powerful spotlight of fame that has followed him since his B-25 was launched from a Navy carrier and flown toward Japan just four months after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In recognition the tremendous boost...
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J. C. Nichols and the Shaping of Kansas City

Innovation in Planned Residential Communities

by William S. Worley
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2013

Born and reared on the outskirts of Kansas City in Olathe, Kansas, Jesse Clyde Nichols (1880-1950) was a creative genius in land development. He grew up witnessing the cycles of development and decline characteristics of Kansas City and other American cities during the late nineteenth and early twentieth...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010

If, as some suggest, American literature began with Huckleberry Finn, then the humorists of the Old South surely helped us to shape that literature. Twain himself learned to write by reading the humorists’ work, and later writers were influenced by it. This book marks the first new collection of...
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From Oligarchy to Republicanism

The Great Task of Reconstruction

by Forrest A. Nabors
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017

On December 4, 1865, members of the 39th United States Congress walked into the Capitol Building to begin their first session after the end of the Civil War. They understood their responsibility to put the nation back on the path established by the American Founding Fathers. The moment when the Republicans...
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Not So Simple

The "Simple" Stories by Langston Hughes

by Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1996

The "Simple" stories, Langston Hughes's satirical pieces featuring Harlem's Jesse B. Semple, have been lauded as Hughes's greatest contribution to American fiction.  In Not So Simple, Donna Akiba Sullivan Harper provides the first full historical analysis of the Simple stories. Harper...
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by Donna L. Potts
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2012

In Contemporary Irish Poetry and the Pastoral Tradition, Donna L. Potts closely examines the pastoral genre in the work of six Irish poets writing today. Through the exploration of the poets and their works, she reveals the wide range of purposes that pastoral has served in both Northern Ireland and...
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From SWEETBACK to SUPER FLY

Race and Film Audiences in Chicago's Loop

by Gerald R. Butters
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016

Racial politics and capitalism found a way to blend together in 1970s Chicago in the form of movie theaters targeted specifically toward African Americans. In From Sweetback to Super Fly, Gerald Buttersexamines the movie theaters in Chicago’s Loop that became, as he describes them, “black spaces”...
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The Power of Two

A Twin Triumph over Cystic Fibrosis, Updated and Expanded Edition

by Isabel Stenzel Byrnes, Anabel Stenzel
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014

For most people, a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis means the certainty of a life ended too soon. But for Isabel Stenzel Byrnes and Anabel Stenzel, twin girls with the disease, what began as a family’s stubborn determination grew into a miracle. The tragedy of CF has been touchingly recounted...
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Demon of the Lost Cause

Sherman and Civil War History

by Wesley Moody
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011

  At the end of the Civil War, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman was surprisingly more popular in the newly defeated South than he was in the North. Yet, only thirty years later, his name was synonymous with evil and destruction in the South, particularly as the creator and enactor of...
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Bugle Resounding

Music and Musicians of the Civil War Era

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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2004

In the mid-nineteenth century the United States was musically vibrant. Rising industrialization, a growing middle class, and increasing concern for the founding of American centers of art created a culture that was rich in musical capital. Beyond its importance to the people who created and played...
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Ethical Communication

Moral Stances in Human Dialogue

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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013

Proponents of professional ethics recognize the importance of theory but also know that the field of ethics is best understood through real-world applications. This book introduces students and practitioners to important ethical concepts through the lives of major thinkers ranging from Aristotle to...
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Byline, Richard Wright

Articles from the DAILY WORKER and NEW MASSES

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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015

A writer perhaps best known for the revolutionary works Black Boy and Native Son, Richard Wright also worked as a journalist during one of the most explosive periods of the 20th century. From 1937 to 1938, Wright turned out more than two hundred articles for the Daily Worker, the newspaper that served...
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